Zeedub Bezzies: Travel, Tunes, and Zombie Turkeys with Andy Zach

Zeedub Bezzies is an ongoing series where I showcase talented authors by goading them into random questioning. It’s good fun, a little weird, sometimes awkward, but always entertaining.

My my my, how to describe Andy Zach in simple and conventional terms. A nigh impossible task, but let’s try anyway for our own amusement. Peculiar? Yeah, but that’s par for the author course. Quirky? Most definitely, but that doesn’t paint the fullest of portraits. Delightfully bizarre in a preternatural Lemony Snicket kind of way? Mhmm, that’s about as close as we’re going to get. Andy found it most agreeable to participate in Zeedub Bezzies, so let’s find out more about him.

A word or phrase, like ‘zombie turkey’ or ‘undead mother-in-law’. A twist from an existing book, like ‘what happens if aliens attack during a zombie apocalypse?’ A comment from my wife, ‘you know what would be really cool?’ A conversation with my daughter, like, ‘This is the time of the year for the great pickle migration.’

Do you proofread and edit your work on your own or pay someone to do it for you?

Yes to both. I proofread my work until I can’t make it better and then I pay an editor for comments and improvement.

Can you share with us something about the book that isn’t in the blurb?

Zombie Turkeys – There are three romances in this book.My Undead Mother-in-law – zombies are both popular and unpopular at the same time in this book.Paranormal Privateers – There are pictures hidden in the back cover.

Have you ever incorporated something that happened to you in real life into your novels?

Yes, all the time. I’ve traveled over Illinois, the setting for Zombie Turkeys, Kansas, Dayton, and Loch Lomond, scenes from My Undead Mother-in-law, and to London, a scene in Paranormal Privateers.